Refrigerator.



WILLIAM I-IA'US'NER AND ALBERT SOHWEIGERT, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO.

REFRIGERATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 9,1913.

Application filed May 5, 1913. Serial No. 765,653.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, \VILLIAM Haosnnn andALBERT SCHWEIGERT, citizens of the United States, residing at Cleveland,in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain newand useful Tmprovements in Refrigerators, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to refrigerators. and has for its object toprovide a refrigerator with an improved weighing attachment or scaleswhereby the amount of ice placed in the refrigerator box will beregistered on a dial at the front of the refrigerator, the device alsoacting as an indicator to show whether there is ice in the refrigerator,and the amount thereof.

The device will be found serviceable for checking up ice men, andconvenient for de termining whether more ice is needed at any time.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in whichFigure 1 is a partial sectional view of the device as applied to arefrigerator. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the weighing attachmentremoved from the refrigerator.

deferring specifically to the drawings 6 indicates the ice box of arefrigerator and 7 a lid thereon. A pan 8 is located in the bottom ofthe box, to collect drippings, and a waste pipe 14 leads therefrom.

9 is the casing or frame of the scales, of the platform type. This setsin the pan 8, the registering mechanism communicates through a pipe 16to a dial 15 exposed at the front of the refrigerator, in an opening inthe wall thereof, the weights being indicated by a pointer cooperatingwith the dial.

The platform of the scale comprises or consists of a plate 10 having atits edge a downwardly inclined flange 10 which covers the scalemechanism, and this flange has grooves 11 to conduct the drip from holes13 in the sides of a box 12 which rests on the platform 10 and whichcontains the piece of ice.

The ice when delivered is placed in the box 12 and the weight thereof isindicated on the dial. As the ice melts the water drips through theholes 13 and grooves 11 to the pan 8 and the waste pipe. The dial.

will indicate, at any time, the amount of ice then in the box. The box12 is fastened to the platform 10 and therefore the weight of the icewill be indicated without respect to the particular position of the icein the box, since the box moves up and down as the weight is increasedor decreased. Therefore in this respect it is superior to attachments inwhich the ice rests on a fiat plate at the bottom of the compartment andma slide or be placed against the fixed wall of an ice compartment inwhich event the true weight will not be registered. The box 12 is spacedfrom the refrigerator wall, so that there is an air space between thebox and the wall of the refrigerator, thus permitting a circulation ofair around the same. The flange 10 of the platform is bent up around thepipe 16, as indicated at X in Fig.

2, thus providing a space for the passage of said pipe.

hat we claim as new is:

1. The combination with the ice compartment of a refrigerator, of a drippan in the bottom thereof, a weighin scale in said pan having a platformplate with downwardly inclined flanges at the edge projecting beside thescale frame, and an ice box mounted on said plate having drip openingsdischarging onto said flange, and a weight indicator operated by thescale.

2. The combination with the ice compartment of a refrigerator, of a drippan in the bottom thereof, a weighing scale in said pan having aplatform plate with flanges at the outer edge thereof projectingdownwardly and outwardly between the scale and the sides of the pan, anice box with sides, mounted on said plate and having drip openings inthe sides, an indicator at the front of the refrigerator operated by theweighing scale, and a tubular connection between the scale casing andthe indicator casing.

In testimony whereof, we do atiix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

W'ILLIAli i I'IAUSNER. ALBERT SCHVVEIGERT.

WVitnesses JOHN A. BOMMHARDT, ED\VARD J. Honmr.

Copies of this patent may be obtained. for five cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0.

